[TxMt] Re: Textmate for remote files

[Allan Odgaard]

On 31. May 2007, at 23:43, Rick Gigger wrote:

> [...] I agree that would be SUCH nice feature.  Obviously I don't  
> know how it works, but couldn't you just take the code that causes  
> a directory scan on focus and disable it [...]

If you drag individual files to the drawer, no rescan is done.  
Scripts to create such static project file from a folder has  
previously been posted here.

> [...] Also couldn't you get notifications directly from the file  
> system when something changes, just like spotlight does?

The API used by Spotlight is rumored to be public in Leopard (hint).

> What is the point of the full directory scan?  There must be some  
> reason that it is the way it is, but it is very strange to me, and  
> is somewhat of a black eye on what is other wise one of the best  
> pieces of software I've ever used.

It is the way it is because that works fine most of the time, and so  
far I have not found time to improve it for the edge cases.